News fEBRUARY 2010

18 February 2010

New High Atlas trekking holiday slideshow

We are pleased to announce that a new photo slideshow has been added to our website. The slideshow has photos from our 2009 guided trekking holiday in the High Atlas, Morocco. The photos follow the group from the start of the trek in Imelil, over some high passes, through some stunning scenery such as as Lac Ifni, and includes their ascent of the highest mountain in North Africa, Jbel Toubkal. This guided trekking holiday includes 6 days and five nights on trek, with time to visit the exotic red city of Marrakech afterwards.

12 February 2010

New Self Catering independent walking Holidays

We are delighted to announce the introduction of a range of new walking holidays using self catering rental accommodation. They are designed to offer independent walking and activity based holidays to those people who are looking for maximum flexibility. We will supply customers with information about the area as well as suggested walks. It's then upto you to decide how much walking you wish to do. Our self catering walking holiday pages detail each holiday page by region. For the moment we have walking holidays in the Beaujolais, Tarn in south west France and the Vanoise in the French Alps. Some regions have more than one rental property on offer. These are detailed in the "Accommodation and price" tab.

We have selected some of the best and (sometimes unusual) historic properties (villas, chalets, cottages etc) set in beautiful regions where great walks, activities and sight seeing is all close by. We also offer some good value properties for those looking for a budget walking holiday.

2 February 2010

New Article about what to put in your rucksack on a walking day trip in the mountains

We have added a new article to our recently added section called top-tips. This is the second of three articles about staying safe in the mountains or remote locations. It looks at how you should prepare your rucksack before you set off for your walk. The others will look at preparing your rucksack and what to do in an emergency.

This advice applies equally to people venturing out for the weekend in UK mountains as it does to mountainous or remote regions abroad. It also applies to our independent walking holidays in mountainous regions such as our trekking tour in the Queyras and our self-guided holiday in the Vanoise region of the French Alps.

It does not apply to multi-day trekking where you carry all your own gear for the week.